Brand with Shen
How to Synergize Brand and Shen
based on 3,923 Brand with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Shen
Tips for Playing as Brand with Shen
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Brand Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Brand in LoL
The Brand Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Brand perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Shen, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Shen helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Shen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Brand during team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Brand that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Shen is a very typical teammate for Brand. By locking into the same side as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 51.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Brand and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Brand players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Brand and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Brand to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Brand and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Brand and Shen pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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